Sentences with phrase «policy architecture»

Options for international policy architectures and institutional venues for global climate change — including alternatives and complements to the UNFCCC (for example, separate aviation or trade agreements — and various types of climate policy clubs)

The Harvard Project's research focuses on policy architecture, key design elements, and institutional dimensions of international and domestic climate change policy — and draws upon leading scholars and policy practitioners from around the world (including Argentina, Australia, China, Europe, India, Japan, and the United States).

There seemed to be a hopeful change during the Lula Administration (2003 - 2011) as Environmental Minister Marina Silva and her colleagues put in place a new policy architecture of protected areas and sustainable development, and her successor Carlos Minc instituted a «shock - and - awe» campaign of aggressive enforcement of the Forest Code which resulted, along with mega-economic trends such as the 2008 crash, in dramatically reduced rates of new deforestation.

In a 1998 book, edited by Bill Nordhaus (Economics and Policy Issues in Climate Change), Dick Schmalensee wrote about «Greenhouse Policy Architectures and Institutions,» and lamented that the Kyoto Protocol exhibited narrow scope (covering only the Annex I countries) but aggressive ambition for that small set of nations.

However, partly because of the new path that is being taken under the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action, in which all countries will be included under a common legal framework in a politically realistic hybrid policy architecture, the prognosis for a meaningful international agreement is better now than it has been in decades.

Critically reviews the Kyoto Protocol and thirteen alternative policy architectures for addressing the threat of global climate change.

The IEA has been engaged for more than a decade on designing cost - effective approaches to reduce CO2 emissions, from the international policy architecture (including trading mechanisms) to energy efficiency policy and the promotion of clean technologies.

Drawing upon leading thinkers in countries around the world (including Argentina, Australia, China, Europe, India, Japan, and the United States), the Project conducts research on policy architecture, key design elements, and institutional dimensions of international and domestic climate policy.

In the meantime, it is at least conceivable — and perhaps likely — that linkage of state ‑ level cap ‑ and ‑ trade systems will become the (interim) de facto national climate policy architecture.

Chief Economist for Canada's Charitable and Nonprofit Sector presents a policy architecture for addressing Canada's looming social deficit.

IFOAM produced a briefing paper ahead of the conference outlining its concerns regarding the potential impact of the policy architecture being discussed on smallholders, food security and hunger.

Nevertheless, it is setting up a policy architecture for such an economy, which could be useful for other countries.

Because years of hard bargaining failed to produce a policy architecture that adequately addresses the complexities of climate change, the international community shifted its attention to the strategy REDD represents.